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In my mind guardsman should have armor effective against all kinds of autoguns barring large calibers, more advanced lasguns and more future weapons giving them the futuristic emperor soldiers feel, having tactics which does not involve throwing more men at it (though its damn cool) , having tanks that are more advanced by at least 40k times our own version of tanks...and if anyone says " Dark age of technology" then at least have the tanks much more advanced than any tanks we possesed now to give it a futuristic feeling...

Anything thing that anyone would like to add that will make the guardsman much more futuristic?...( no space marines please, that would make the thread tooooo long)]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/299370/1651679.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/299370/1651679.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/299370/1651690.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/299370/1651690.page GMT 40k...i know its grim dark and all...but if war is what the imperium is always at...it should be progressing in terms of weaponary at a rate that would even put the tau to shame...]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/299370/1651742.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/299370/1651742.page GMT http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/299370/1651771.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/299370/1651771.page GMT
No no no, let the humans unable to advance technologically, make the things they have outdated by pissed off xenos, make them attacked by said xenos from all sides, and ta daaaaa! There's your grimdark recipe to success!]]> http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/299370/1651778.page http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/preList/299370/1651778.page GMT 40k was trying to catch up with contemporary weapons advances then everything would have to be rewritten, redrawn and resculpted every 5-10 years as our ideas of the future are shaped by what we have today.

That's a bad strategy for miniatures game. Especially because the odds are future battles won't work anything like a grand 40k style universe of war but will be smaller, and smaller engagements with better equipped elite soldiers.

40K is self consciously anachronistic. The IG aren't in any way shape or form intended to represent the future of human warfare. They're cyberpunk parodies of various different historical earth armies, the allies in WW2, the russians in WW2, the nazis, the British colonial army, the turks/arab fighters, the american vietnam forces. Those aesthetics are put in a blender with gothic religion, cyberpunk and some future tech and voila, IG.

If you want an army that fights more like modern NATO forces then go for Tau. Markerlights, spotters, drones, VTOL insertion vehicles, railguns, targetlocks, multitrackers, etc are all either devices used by modern NATO forces or been developed by them at present. Mix that with aliens, some mecha and some samurai and you get Tau.

Cyberpunk knights? Space Marines
Road Warrior Post Apocalyptic raiders? Orks
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